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Chicago Shootings

January 7, 2017

Five people were wounded in shootings since Friday afternoon, police said. Three men were shot in a drive-by shooting about 1:40 p.m. on the city’s West Side, police said. The shooter was inside a passing black SUV that opened fire at the group. The three, 26, 20, and 19, got themselves to Stroger Hospital where…

January 6, 2017

Two men were killed and two more people were wounded in separate shootings Thursday night on the South Side. The Murder happened about 11:15 p.m. in Bronzeville. Someone walked up to a 28-year-old man as he sat in the driver’s seat of a car parked in the 800 block of East 46th Street and shot…

January 4, 2017

Chicago’s rampant violence is contagious and should be treated like a disease, according to a study published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers focused on a network of about 138,000 people in Chicago — including about 9,800 gunshot victims — between 2006 and 2014. The network was comprised of people who’ve been arrested with someone…

January 1, 2017

Five people were killed and at least 30 others have been wounded in shootings across the city over the New Year’s holiday weekend, according to Chicago Police.

The most recent homicide happened Sunday morning in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. At 5:53 a.m., officers responded to a call of a person down in the 4600 block of West Monroe and found a 39-year-old man lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Less than two hours earlier, two people were fatally shot in Uptown. The shooting happened at 4:25 a.m. in the 4600 block of North Broadway, police said. A 38-year-old man was shot in the chest and right leg and a man, between the ages of 35 and 40, was shot multiple times in the right side, police said. They were both taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital where they were pronounced dead.

Another person was fatally shot Saturday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood. A 24-year-old man was driving in the 4800 block of West Chicago at 12:29 p.m. when a Mercedes sideswiped his vehicle, police said. Someone got out of the Mercedes, began arguing with the man and shot him in his left side during the argument. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The first homicide of the weekend happened about 9:40 p.m. Friday in the South Side Gresham neighborhood, where officers responding to a call of shots fired in the 8100 block of South Bishop found a 15-year-old boy in an alley with gunshot wounds to the head, police said. He was dead at the scene. Police said the shooting may have been gang-related.

The most recent nonfatal shooting happened early Sunday in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the Far South Side. Officers responded to a call of a person shot at 3:46 a.m. in the 11200 block of South Longwood and found a 19-year-old man wounded, police said. Additional officers discovered a vehicle near Monterey and Vincennes with a 21-year-old man and 20-year-old man who were wounded in the same shooting. The 19-year-old man was shot in the lower back and the 20-year-old was shot in the left shoulder, police said. Both men were taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where their conditions were stabilized. The 21-year-old was shot in the throat and also taken to Christ, where he was listed in critical condition.

At least 27 other people were wounded in shootings between 4:30 p.m. Friday and Sunday.

Forty-two people were shot in Chicago over the New Year’s holiday last year, leaving four dead.

December 31, 2016

A man was killed and at least six others have been wounded in shootings across the city to start the New Year’s holiday weekend, according to Chicago Police. The homicide happened about 9:40 p.m. Friday in the South Side Gresham neighborhood, where officers responding to a call of shots fired in the 8100 block of…

December 31, 2016

A man with a concealed-carry license fatally shot a would-be robber in Chatham Friday afternoon, sources said. The 23-year-old man was walking in the 8200 block of South Ingleside about 1:54 p.m. when another male pulled out a gun and tried to rob him, according to police. A fight broke out and the 23-year-old, who…

December 29, 2016

The 4400 block of West Monroe on Chicago’s West Side is a residential street of two-story buildings, senior citizens and a day care center. It’s also the city’s most dangerous block of 2016, a stretch plagued by heroin, shootings and murder. “I don’t think it’s safe here any time,” said a landlord on the block,…

December 29, 2016

A 32-year-old man was killed and 11 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago from Wednesday evening to early Thursday. The man was shot in the head in front of a residence in the 6200 block of South Indiana Avenue about 8:45 p.m., police said. He was taken to St. Bernard Hospital and pronounced…

December 29, 2016

One man was killed and at least four other people were wounded in shootings Tuesday across the city, according to Chicago Police. The man was gunned down at 5:08 p.m. in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood on the South Side. Christopher D. Brown, 23, was walking in the 6400 block of South King Drive when two…

December 27, 2016

Two teenage girls were wounded in a shooting Monday night in the Gresham neighborhood, Chicago police said. Police said the two girls, both 14, were sitting in a minivan in the 7500-block of South Union Avenue when two men fired shots into the minivan at about 11:30 p.m. Police are still looking for the person…

December 25, 2016

Six men were killed and at least 21 other people have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening, according to Chicago police. The weekend’s most recent shooting happened at 1:33 a.m. Sunday in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. An 18-year-old man was driving north in the 5300-block of South Francisco…

December 24, 2016

Three men were killed and 17 other people were wounded in shootings from Friday to Saturday, police said. Two men were killed about 10:50 p.m. in the 500 block of North Laramie Avenue in the city’s South Austin neighborhood, police said. A 21-year-old man and a 20-year-old man went outside after talking on the phone,…

December 23, 2016

A man was killed and at least eight more people were wounded in shootings across Chicago on Thursday. The homicide happened at 1:11 p.m. in the South Shore neighborhood, where someone in a white SUV shot at two men, ages 20 and 21, on a sidewalk in the 7900 block of South Exchange, according to…

December 19, 2016

At least 38 people were shot – 10 of them fatally – across the city between Friday afternoon and Monday morning, according to Chicago police and family members of the victims. A 34-year-old man was killed early Sunday in the weekend’s latest fatal shooting. Joel Planas was fighting with another male at 12:52 a.m. on…

December 18, 2016

Six-year-old Tacarra Morgan still has scars from a bullet that hit her in the stomach this summer — but she doesn’t like to show it off. And she still shows signs of being traumatized after she was hit with gunfire while she sat on a porch with her mom and grandmother. “My daughter is still…

December 18, 2016

At least 35 people have been shot – nine of them fatally – across the city since Friday afternoon, according to Chicago police and family members of the victims. Five people were killed in the weekend’s most recent homicide incident Saturday afternoon in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side. Officers were called at…

December 18, 2016

As snow fell early Sunday, a man with blood splattered on his white T-shirt walked out of a party bus that had stopped under a viaduct on Irving Park Road near Lake Shore Drive in the Lakeview neighborhood on the North Side. He was put on a stretcher and into an ambulance, where paramedics worked…

December 10, 2016

Two men were killed and three others were wounded in shootings Friday, police said. Just after 10 p.m., a 34-year-old man was fatally shot during an argument inside a home in the 8000 block of South Evans Avenue in Chatham, police said. During the argument, a person who knew the 34-year-old man shot him in…

December 10, 2016

A 17-year-old boy is hospitalized Friday morning after being shot in the chest while sitting in the back seat of a SUV. The shooting happened shortly after midnight at 18th and Union, near the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, in the city’s University Village neighborhood. When the teen and others in the car heard…